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The Taunton to Barnstaple Line : A History of the Devon And Somerset Railway: From Conception to Demise: Volume 1 book by Freddie Huxtable ISBN: 9781911038153

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. Small gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Toward the end o 10pm there there was cheating anal a diesel horn wonded. The above a cutting through which th few hundred jak west of Duberton waton. It was the last train My mother asked if I wanted to seetIsalsall don’t know why. Maybe I didn’t want to witness the line’s death thrus but I still regret the decision not to see the last train. Maybe it was at the point I was destined to write this book either as ‘punishment or as reparation of that decision not to see that last tram. In a sense that end was just the beginning of my affection for and interest in the reas We moved from Combe Farm to Brushford village in August 1967. It was at that time they were dismantling the bine in ?? achool holidays I watched with fascination as the demotion trans trundled up and down the line near bur Brushford bone with waves containing the remnants of the Devon & Somerset Raiders I even remember heating one such demolition train trandling down that same cutting by the village ball going towards Taunton hauled by a North Batch ‘D63XX’ diesel hydraulic Off I ran to see muvibe even to get the locomotive’s number but I was too slow By the time I reached the station indge at Dulverton it had gone out of sight However what did not escape me were some of those remnants from the line. They fell into my possession afficted by the workmen dismantling the track and photographs of some of these items can be seen towards the end of the book My passing interest in railway (MP)

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ISBN

9781911038153

Format

Hardcover

Publisher

Lightmoor Press

Book author

Freddie Huxtable

Condition

Used – Very Good

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